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Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The Government and the National Party recently announced agreement about the need to make it easier to build more homes on residential sections in our major cities, presumably
Last night saw the third poll in a week confirm the slide in support for Labour as they continue to burn support through their hopeless handling of the Delta outbreak. The 1News poll also shows that the strategy of undermining leader Judith Collins by the sad-sack losers in Simon
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement on boosters showed how all announcements should be done. Cabinet made the decision; the Prime Minister immediately shared the information with the public. People now know what the Government will do, and when. We now know that if you had your vaccine
The Government continues to make up its Covid response on the fly, randomly and publicly pondering changes to the traffic light framework announced only a few weeks ago and providing absolutely no certainty to Aucklanders or the rest of the country, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Three weeks
Branko Marcetic Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Branko Marcetic is co-host of the podcast 1 of 200 and a staff writer for Jacobin magazine Thanks to the disruptions of the last year and a half, I’ve had the debatable fortune to experience the pandemic
Afghanistan is not called “the graveyard of empires” for nothing. From the Persians and Greeks, to the British, Soviets and Americans, great powers have attempted to invade Afghanistan at their peril. At the very least, they’re sent packing with their tails between their legs. At worst, Afghan adventurism becomes
CLINTEL clintel.org. At COP26, the wealthy global elite arrived in Glasgow on 400 private jets to lecture those attending. They said that our technological achievements have caused a global “climate emergency”, that it was “one minute to midnight” and that if we failed to stop this supposedly disastrous trend
A mob of students waving flags and shouting slogans chases a Jewish leader from a university. She is bundled into a car and flees for safety. Are we talking about a horde of brownshirts at a Berlin university in 1938? A mob of skinheads in Moscow? Islamic students in Iran?
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. In the dystopian novel 1984, the government relied on the use of telescreens and informants to enforce its massive, repressive regime. And while that was fiction, events in our modern society
News that the Government is considering restricting travel into some regions over the summer holiday period is just the latest of many signs Jacinda Ardern’s Government failed to plan for Delta and is working out its response as it goes along. Aucklanders who have now spent 90 days in
David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s a great opportunity for Jacinda Ardern to show some leadership, by giving clear commitments on borders, boosters, and Freedom Day. The Prime Minister should set out what will happen and when, then state clearly if there are any scenarios that could get in the
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. On Thursday it was announced that the recently departed Green Party Chief of Staff in Parliament, Tory Whanau,
David Seymour ACT Leader As the reality of teachers and nurses walking away from their jobs sets in today, ACT is again calling for the mandate to allow regular testing as an alternative to vaccination. ACT is pro-vaccination; we are frustrated by those who are refusing the vaccine. But
Look back to April 20, 2020, when Uri Friedman, in The Atlantic, reported that “Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people, it’s putting the country on track for success against the corona virus.” Well, not now. Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style
